Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
44 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
35 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Defense
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20205 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20205 filingsthrough 2020
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Max Baucus45 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-Tate45 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee;Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus;Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP44 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate42 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: lumen-technologies-service-group-llc.
DEF
32 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$910K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
19 filings
$880K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
114th Congress
An act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2987115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard Shelby
37 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: November 10-October 13 with Senator Rob Portman December 08-April 10 with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison January 05-March 06 with Senator Mike DeWine29 filingsthrough 2022
DANIEL C TATE jrForbes-TateCovered position: Special Assistant to the President Clinton for Legislative Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Legislative Director, Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin26 filingsthrough 2022
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Orrin Hatch19 filingsthrough 2022
Samantha McleanForbes-TateCovered position: Senior LA, Senator Cruz (2018-2023); LA, Senator Cruz (2016-2018); Leg Aid, Senator Cruz (2013-2016); Assistant to the CoS and LD, Senator Cruz (2013-2013); SA, Senator DeMint (2012-2012)13 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)9 filingsthrough 2024
Rachel MillerForbes-Tate2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 8 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
